Have you taken down your Christmas decorations yet?

Dec 29, 2012 11:17 PM

Our Christmas tree is littering the floor, gift wrap piles are everywhere, and glitter is showing up in unexpected places. As much as I love Christmas, this stuff is making me nuts! I am determined to get at least most of it cleaned up and put away before the weekend is over. When do you take down your decorations?

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I leave my favorite stuff up year-round. Why put it away, I still like to look at it, is my theory.

I did not get anything else up this year. I am going to make it a goal to have a cat toy tree next season. I will need to do some work so if will be safe for the little manics.

Live trees are recycled here, too. I think you put them out regular night in January so you can keep the tree for a few more weeks and still get it into the program. Our last live tree I took down in March ;)

#1 son has been in hospital since Thursday, so our usual routine of taking everything down but the tree (it's fake, so no hurry) until New Year's Day has thrown a monkey wrench into the works. Good news is he should be released today and life can go back to its normal chaos. We HAVE to start taking things down because the cats and dogs seem to be hellbent on knocking things down on their own! It's hard not to laugh when baby Jesus is rocketing across the wooden floors being chased by a cat & a dog.

In all seriousness, though, we usually take down the outside decorations and lights sometime in the week after new year's eve. Probably on Friday. Everyone on our street still has their stuff up and lit for a few more days at least. Of course, every street has that one house that never takes them down.....

Tree comes down around the same time. Christmas gifts are slowly being put into their new homes, and all giftwrap was bagged as gifts were being opened. After everything gets packed away into tubs, they go in their spaces in the garage. Try to keep the collection of halloween, 4th of july, christmas, thanksgiving, new year's, and easter stuff as well organized as possible and and label all the tubs with labels facing out so we know what's where.

I go all out for Christmas, and have a lot of lights. I took second place this year in the city contest, and I always leave them up until the 1st. I still have people stopping in front of the house this weekend, and wouldn't want to deprive anyone of seeing them over the Holidays.

Live Christmas trees are recycled in our area. You can drop them at certain places or, if you get them to the curb on your assigned day, they will be picked up. They are used as part of a project by our Department of Natural Resources to prevent coastal erosion. Pretty cool!

My point, and I do have one, is that I haven't taken down my decorations either, but I'm determined to get it done in time for curbside pickup of our tree!

Our tree and decorations are still up. It's a real tree, and it probably will stay up another week or so before it gets hauled to the curb for pickup. The outside lights, which amount to 6 light up Christmas Flamingos will be up until the half-frozen snow is gone, because I'm pretty sure I won't be able to pull them out of the ground now.

However, at one of the 4 stores I work, I will be taking their tree and decorations down on Friday. It looks so pretty I don't want to, but I can't leave them up forever unfortunately. Plus, the office really needs a cleaning, so this will force me to do so!

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